Sleia

Sleia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PodocopidaPBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Silurian — about 10 of 10 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 10 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–422 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences426.7 Mya422.7 Mya431.1 Mya419.1 Mya

10 occurrences of Sleia on record, most of them in the Silurian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

10 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

5 formations

Much Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WPagegiai — 56.88°N, 21.18°ESkala — 49.58°N, 23.90°EVievis — 55.32°N, 24.00°EMaizass — 57.03°N, 78.35°E

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The named rock units Sleia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sleia and its relatives

Silurian

Where Sleia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

236 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Sleia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

6 references

Each of the 10 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Sleia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPodocopida through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.